Visual support for events leading up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1. Life in 1945

2. Prior to July 16, 1945 FDR dies: April 12, 1945

3. Prior to July 16, 1945 Hitler commits suicide: April 30, 1945

4. Victory in Europe Day: May 7, 1945 Prior to July 16, 1945

5. Lessons of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

6. Iwo Jima First US attack on home islands of Japan Over 20,000 Japanese soldiers died

7. Okinawa More died at Okinawa than at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined

8. J. Robert Oppenheimer

11. Trinity Test: July 16, 1945

15. Truman? President?

16. To Bomb or Not to Bomb?

18. The Decision

19. Hiroshima On August 6, 1945, the US put into motion the dropping of the first atomic bomb when the plane the Enola Gay dropped the bomb known as “the Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima…approximately 140,000 are killed

20. Nagasaki Three days later, the second atomic bomb “the Fat Man” carried in the Bock’s Car dropped on the city of Nagasaki…approximately 70,000 are killed

22. Short-term results of the bomb The war is over. 210,000 Japanese are dead.

23. Long-term results Radiation US occupies Japan post-war Increase in nuclear programs The Cold War begins